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A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural nuances of the Flavian Age (69-96 CE).
* Includes contributions from over two dozen Classical Studies scholars organized into six thematic sections
* Illustrates how economic, social, and cultural forces interacted to create a variety of social worlds within a composite Roman empire
* Concludes with a series of appendices that provide detailed chronological and demographic information and an extensive glossary of terms
* Examines the Flavian Age more broadly and inclusively than ever before incorporating coverage of often neglected groups, such as women and non-Romans within the Empire
List of contents
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations xvi
Introduction 1
Andrew Zissos
Part I Preliminary 15
1 Sources and Evidence 17
Frédéric Hurlet
Part II Dynasty 41
2 The Remarkable Rise of the Flavians 43
Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
3 The Emperor Vespasian 60
John Nicols
4 The Emperor Titus 76
Charles Leslie Murison
5 The Emperor Domitian 92
Alessandro Galimberti
6 Imperial Image?]Making 109
Steven L. Tuck
7 Public Images of the Flavian Dynasty: Sculpture and Coinage 129
Susan Wood
8 Remaking Rome 148
Andrew B. Gallia
9 The Flavians and the Senate 166
Loránd Dészpa
Part III Empire 187
10 The Economic Impact of Flavian Rule 189
Alessandro Launaro
11 Frontiers, Security, and Military Policy 207
Christopher J. Dart
12 Centers and Peripheries 223
Randall Pogorzelski
13 Flavian Judea 239
Mark A. Brighton
14 Flavian Britain 255
Gil Gambash
Part Iv Societies and Cultures 275
15 Foreigners and Flavians: Prejudices and Engagements 277
Grant Parker
16 Women in Flavian Rome 296
Laura K. Van Abbema
17 Education in the Flavian Age 313
Yun Lee Too
18 Flavian Pompeii: Restoration and Renewal 327
Eleanor Winsor Leach
19 The Aesthetics of the Everyday in Flavian Art and Literature 344
Sarah H. Blake
20 Flavian Spectacle: Paradox and Wonder 361
Helen Lovatt
21 Literary Culture 376
Antony Augoustakis
Part v Literature 393
22 Epic Poetry: Historicizing the Flavian Epics 395
Neil W. Bernstein
23 Epigram and Occasional Poetry: Social Life and Values in Martial's Epigrams and Statius' Silvae 412
William J. Dominik
24 Latin Prose Literature: Author and Authority in the Prefaces of Pliny and Quintilian 434
Paul Roche
25 Flavian Greek Literature 450
Adam Kemezis
26 Lost Literature 469
Michael Dewar
Part vi Reception 485
27 The Flavian Legacy 487
Andrew Zissos
28 Vesuvius and Pompeii 515
Andrew Zissos
29 Reception of Flavian Literature 535
Andrew Zissos
Appendix 1 Chronology 560
Appendix 2 Demographic and Other Estimates 565
Appendix 3 Flavian Legionary Dispositions 568
Appendix 4 Lex de Imperio Vespasiani 570
Glossary of Terms and Expressions 573
Index of Passages 591
General Index 594
About the author
Andrew Zissos is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on Latin epic, editor of a commentary on Book 1 of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica (2008), and co-editor, with Ingo Gildenhard, of Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood (2013).
